top democrats blasting the gop for criticizing obamacare. they say that republicans have not offered any alternative. are they right? we have a senior fellow at the manhattan institute who joins us now. what are folks saying about this and how they say republicans are not ponying of the ideas. >> at least they used to say that we will replace it with something better. but there is not even a pretense that they will replace it with something better. >> the republicans have criticized a day after day and they have no replacements for the affordable care act. >> the republicans have proposed a lot of different alternatives and i think where the democrats have a fair point is that republicans need to come together on a consensus plan that would replace obamacare. gerri: let's take a look. some of them are comprehensive, tom coburn, paul broun, on and on they go, lots of suggestions and ideas and you mentioned the fact that a lot of this boils down to repealing obamacare and that it would be tough to do. and there is other stuff in there that is